Jul 23
Houston, we have a design! Congratulations to the Engineer Your Passion STEM Camp participants who successfully designed and submitted 3-D container designs to serve the needs of astronauts living at the International Space Station! Thank you to Dr. Joseph Ayoob for the ideas on the fruit fly olfactory experiment. The device allows for the observation …
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Jul 23
Congratulations to the Engineer Your Passion participants for working hard all day to ready to fantastic entries to the 2015 STEM Video Competition! Special thanks to guest presenters and filmmakers Eli, Tim, and Bella for getting us off on the right foot! STEM UNCOVERED is a national video competition in which kids can creatively …
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Jun 18
“Really, that’s what you noticed?!” (comment of my husband after the show) We happened into tickets to the phenomenal Cirque de Soleil show KÀ in Vegas. The music, the story, the actors, the costumes were all extraordinary, but what caught my attention was the robot! Performers fought, danced, leaped, climbed and fell from what appears …
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Apr 12
Congratulations to the two Pittsburgh competitors on their way to the international challenge round! Teams gathered Friday two begin a two day hack-a-thon marathon to build a space app. Degrees of Data included a very hardworking freshman from Pitt and his team. NamingNature brought their tree naming app to address deforestation. Check out what these …
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Mar 29
FedEx opened their doors to five Baden Academy research fellows who journeyed to Neville Island to learn more about the technology behind the accurate and safe delivery of packages. The fascinating and thought provoking tour was part of 5th grade Owen R-K’s fellows project to research and test a new identification system for students to …
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Feb 28
New technologies are becoming available to entrepreneurs, students, artists, and those of us who want have an insatiable desire for lifelong learning and playing with the latest toys. Just a few quick examples… TechShop offers access to training and use of amazing equipment such as 3D Printers, Casting Kilns, Computer Programmable Embroidery Machines (yes – …
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Feb 22
By Arvind and Sanjay Seshan Welcome to guest bloggers Arvind and Sanjay Seshan! Arvind and Sanjay are members of Not the Droids You Are Looking For (www.droidsrobotics.org), a FIRST Lego League (www.firstlegoleague.org) team based in Pittsburgh, PA. They have had a very successful four seasons, winning a Champions trophy and Robot Performance trophy every year of …
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Dec 02
Blast off is this Thursday, December 4, 2014, 7 am. Students from Baden Academy and from Grow a Generation workshops earned their spot as virtual crew members aboard the Orion Spacecraft. Congratulations Zoe, Lexi, Ava, Bryant, Emily and Glorian! I got my ticket … Get your child excited! Consider …
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Nov 01
CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY OF BEAVER FALLS Presents Create stories, games, and animations! Learn to empower young learners create computer animations and games with meaningful projects and challenges. WHEN: Friday, November 14th, 8:30am to 2:00pm WHERE: Carnegie Free Library of Beaver Falls COST: Free REGISTER: Jean Ann Barsotti [email protected] 724.846.4340 DOWNLOAD FLYER AND REGISTRATION
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